Reply To: MRV Case Study

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Han Zhan
Participant

Answer:
A site visit, document review and interviews.
sampling approach as follows: Number of suppliers Less than 50, Sample size is 20% of the total number of suppliers; Number of suppliers Less than >50, Sample size is Square root of the total number of suppliers.

Supplying farms should be grouped by geographical location and/or risk for the calculation of the sample size. All geographical regions should be included and therefore the sample should be increased if necessary. The final sample size is to be rounded upwards.
All suppliers directly connected to agricultural commodity production and/or related products. The final sample size is to be rounded upwards.
For very high-risk and high-risk regions the values indicated in Table 1 shall be used; for medium-risk regions reduce 15% of the suppliers that should be accessed (rounding upwards), and for low-risk regions reduce 30% of the suppliers that should be accessed (rounding upwards).

• environmental embargoes or crimes;
• slave and child labour;
• conflicts with indigenous or traditional communities;
• deforestation.